Sicily (Italy): sailing around the Aeolian islands
I don't know why it took me so long to accept Paolo's suggestions to take a 7-day sailing boat around Italy's Aeolian Islands located north of Sicily. As matter of fact, after my husband took his sailing license three years ago, he has a boundless enthusiasm for bowlines and stoppers, halyards and winches. Why on a sailing boat on the Aeolian islands? I may not get so excited to talk about sailing jibs and getting the mainsails down, but I do love enjoying those magical moments when you watch sunsets over the yardarm sipping a glass of Aeolian Malvasia wine . And there is more than wine to go on a sailing boat to the Aeolian islands . Who isn't dreaming about telling a story about smouldering vulcanoes, bright flower-hung little alleys or sitting on a pitch black beach lingering over a lemon granita? Well, you'll find all this across 115 square kilometres of the Aeolian islands : with just 14,000 inhabitants, tourist crowds are few and far between